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Hiedra I, Colección de Recuerdos 2019-2023

Hiedra Rechinante, IV

Dear Parca - Hiedra Rechinante, IV

This month attempting to "capture glamour without falling into it". This is my loving tribute to the great Canadian conceptual art pranksters General Idea. Recently I dreamt I was attending their Miss General Idea Pageant of 1971. As far as I know there are no full video renderings of the event apart from a few grainy clips and staged photographs. Neither there is footage of the one they planned for 1984 in the imaginary ziggurat-shaped Miss General Idea Pavilion. Basically, I'm trying to resound the event by grafting the music (narratively, if you will) onto General Idea's various TV cues, forgeries, and mystifications. Or "framing devices" in the trio's own wording. 

Includes sounds, words and music by:
General Idea, Terre Thaemlitz, William Basinski, Graham Lambkin, The Caretaker, Svitlana Nianio, Su Tissue, Kraftwerk, Hype Williams, Anne Waldman, Einsturzende Neubauten, Laurence Crane, John Celona, Tom Recchion, Brigitte Fontaine, Jacqueline Humbert, Ellen Zweig and others.

Full tracklist at: https://snowsovgethen.com/journal/snows-ov-gethen-hermetic-journals-the-miss-general-idea-pageant-a-surrogate-soundtrack

Hermetic Journals: The Miss General Idea Pageant (A Surrogate Soundtrack)

Comisioned by Jockstrap for BBC 6 Lose Yourself

Tracklist>https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001lvsf

Cajm BBC6 Guestmix Jun 14th 2023

Music for Whales, an ambient radio transmission. The art of drone. Twenty two of some of the best pieces of the subgenere ever made mixed, exploring the art of make music based in eternals sustains creating distorted melodies, abrupt landscapes, and hummig atmosphere as a outcome.

Nothing else to say... Whales would not understand us.

1. William Basinski - The river I
2. Hainbach - The guide
3. Loke Rahbek & Frederik Valentin - Elephant
4. Tim Hecker - The Piano Drop
5. Paul Jebanasam - depart as | air dx stop
6. Abul Mogard - The Purpose Of Peace
7. Mika Vainio + Ryoji Ikeda - Movement 3
8. Fennesz - Rivers of sand
9. Fennesz - In My Room
10. Benoît Pioulard - Stone in focus
11. Roly Porter - 4101
12. Kali Malone - Sacer Profanare
13. Amulets - Blooming
14. Loscil - Motoc
15. Rafael Anton Irisarri - Empire Systems
16. Alva Noto - Xerrox Neige
17. Raime - Passed Over Trail
18. Ian William Craig - And end of rooms
19. Alessandro Cortini - Iniciare
20. Andrew Tasselmyer - Missing Pieces of Self
21. Snufmumriko - Långt under noll

Music For Whales - The art of Drone

originally transmitted on http://www.substrateradio.com

Merry Psychic Tuesday!!!

This episode of PTR finds us experiencing in full Part 1 of William Basinki’s monumental and historical Disintegration Loops. These 4 albums are comprised of tape loop recordings played for extended time, with noise and cracks increasing as the tape deteriorated. Basinski discovered the effect while attempting to transfer his earlier recordings to digital format.

The completion of the recording coincided with the 9/11 attacks, which Basinski witnessed from his rooftop in Brooklyn; the cover art features his own video still of the New York City skyline in the aftermath of the World Trade Center’s collapse. He dedicated the music to the victims of the attacks. 

As always,

*** ENJOY ***

HOUR 1 : The 8 O’Clock Shuffle

Yotam The Unholy - Antenna Radio
Day Job - Post Collapse 
Ghost Food + Lauren Jones - Beaver Moon 
Dor - War of the Worlds 
Orua - Forca Contra a Favor 
STUFF - Slug 
frown lines - note57 
Being Dead - Boxes On the Ground
Broadcast - Message From Home
Tom Waits - Missing My Son 
Tracey Ullman - They Don’t Know 
Negativland - Over The Hiccups 
Strange Nursery - To Whom The Unit Is Attached 
Belbury Poly - Widdershins 

HOUR 2 : feature - The Disintegration Loops by William Basinski

William Basinski - dlp 1.1.

Groucho Marx - Hello, I Must Be Going
The Velvet Underground - After Hours

episode 268 : The Disintegration Loops by William Basinksi

EARL SWEATSHIRT X WILLIAM BASINSKI

TRACK 2 OFF "PLAQUE"
DATE TBA

REST

This recording was a one-take loop from a cassette tape loop that I have been messing with. The result had me entranced. It came to me at a very transitional period of my life. I've been feeling so lost and unsure of myself lately. However, this loop has been grounding me through this metamorphosis, and I wanted to share the joy and tranquility in feeling 

Music Video on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8-erSdqqEk&ab_channel=LOOPD

Motion Blur

William Basinski is the most rock and roll artist in the history of avant garde music. We caught up with him and composer Maxim Moston at Primavera Sound 2024, where Basinski was performing his classic album Disintegration Tapes live, for which Moston wrote the orchestral transcription. We spoke about everything from the wisdom of aging to how on earth you transcribe vinyl crackle. Line Noise is with the support of Cupra. Picture by Cecilia Diaz Betz.

Line Noise Episode 173 (William Basinski and Maxim Moston)

A tape loop I made which has a solemn but determined tone.

Forging path forward

LINE_157

A decade is a long pause… how the world has changed since…

Longtime friends and collaborators, iconic ambient composer William Basinski and sound artist/composer Richard Chartier return to LINE with 'Aurora Terminalis', their first new work together since 2015’s ‘Divertissement’ LP (Important Records, US).

From an unexpected sudden burst of sound jaggedly spiraling outward, the tumult fades and shockwaves slide into lulling haze of a melody. Background nuance—nearly imperceptible—and foreground romanticism ripple near each others’ edges. Then, rhythmic and liquid, an erratic drifting over a clouded void... an 'un-still' life... a slow tracing.

'Aurora Terminalis'… a fading gauzy signal for a finality.

Basinski and Chartier have previously released two collaborative works on LINE; Aurora Liminalis (2013) and Untitled 1-3 (2008, an expanded reissue of 'Untitled' originally on Spekk, Japan, 2004), as well as the archival Bandcamp exclusive 'Something from the Pink House' a live improvisation recorded in 2004.

William Basinski's archival album 'The Clocktower at the Beach (1979)' was released on LINE in 2023.

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composed & recorded by Basinski & Chartier 2024

William Basinski: Voyetra 8 + loops
Richard Chartier: electronics, field recordings, processing, mixing

Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space

cover image: detail of 'Glass Eye', 2024 by James Elaine (acrylic and house paints, razor cuts on canvas, 62 in x 92 in)

© 2025 LINE

William Basinski published by Musex International (BMI)
Richard Chartier published by Touch Music/Fairwood Music UK Ltd

Aurora Terminalis

Aurora Terminalis (excerpt 1)

major to minor to major

pulses and toms

square saws

Aurora Terminalis (excerpt 2)

Ambient Electronica is Nicholas Huston.

Harmonic swells sticky taped together, nurtured by reverb and delay pedals. Creating washes of nostalgia with spritzes of serenity.

His debut album, Winter's Tapestry, is an ambient ode to the universal human experiences of navigating a hazy landscape of the mind. Each tape loop represents a delicate thread of the human psyche enduring fragility and fortitude. The compositions implore listeners to attune to these emotions which shape us and our experiences, for they are what make us human.

Prior to his debut album, Nick has been exercising his improvisational skills with sound. He has performed live with Perth/Boorloo new-music initiatives such as Resonant Fields and Tenth Muse Initiative. His widely acclaimed headlining show at Strange Festival 2022 housed a night of ambience and improvised music for his audience.

•she/her•all production and photography is by me unless stated otherwise•

One man band. 
J. Hammond.
Ontario Canada.

A podcast about electronic music by Ben Cardew. Formerly home to Braqueberry and Philip Sherburne. Picking at the threads of electronic music. Now available on Radio Primavera Sound (primaverasound.com/en/radio). We also have a Substack: https://linenoise.substack.com/

Estación de radio. 
Conversación socioMusical enlatada, sin censura ni sesgos de proximidad.

[Electromagnetismo es lo que sucede cuando le das otra vez al play. Lo que te anima a escuchar eso que llaman música, esa música que utiliza el aire como portadora, una onda senoidal como discurso y nuestros oídos como destino de su corta pero sugerente vida.

Bienvenido o bienvenida a electromagnética…]

Transmissions to the aether • des bruits colorés
https://snowsovgethen.com/

Richard Chartier (b.1971) is a Los Angeles based artist, considered one of the key figures in minimalist sound art. Chartier’s works explore the inter-relationships between the spatial nature of sound, silence, focus, perception, and the act of listening itself. Chartier’'s sound works/installations have been presented in galleries and museums internationally and he has performed his work live across Europe, Japan, Australia, and North America at digital art/electronic music festivals and exhibits. In 2000 he formed the recording label LINE and has since curated its continuing documentation of compositional and installation work by international sound artists/composers exploring the aesthetics of contemporary and digital minimalism.

He is also Pinkcourtesyphone.

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